Optimal strategies for a monopoly intermediary in the supply chain of complementary Web services

Journal of Management Information Systems

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 275-307

  Qian, Tang ^a,b   Hsing, Cheng ^b,c,d  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b AIS ^*

^c Department of Information Systems   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Business intermediary; Complementarity; Network externalities; Supply chains; Web services

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS INTERMEDIARY; COMPLEMENTARY WEB SERVICES; NETWORK EXTERNALITIES; WEB SERVICE INTERMEDIARY (WSI);

COMPUTER SOFTWARE REUSABILITY; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; INTERNET; SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT; USER INTERFACES;

WEB SERVICES;

EID: 34249075720     PISSN: 07421222     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2753/MIS0742-1222230310     Document Type: Article

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